The healing powercreep occured not via buff, but via heroes. The best healing one could get on release was the 60 hps Mercy beam. Lucio can bump more overall numbers with aoe healing but he can’t quickly return a wounded teammate to the fray. Then Ana came out, she wasn’t so consistent, but her healing in perfect scenario (like shooting Reinhardt’s butt) could reach about 100 hps and she could bump it more with a bionade. Then there was Moira with 80 aoe hps output and an orb on top of it. Then Brig, with the best instant-heal ability in the game and huge overheal. Then Bap with his like 90 aoe hps output? Don’t rememver his RoF, feels like 0.7 or so. So the new supports each bump a lot more numbers that any release supports do. Mercy, Zen, Lucio are all utility supports and the ones who actually considered a main heal are later additions.
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